Interview: Novartis Takes Virtual Route To Transform Clinical Trial Paradigm

Jake LaPorte, head of digital development at the Swiss major, has told Scrip that the expansion of Novartis' collaboration with Science 37 will move decentralized trials away from the pilot stage into a scaleable model that will have a genuine impact on the way R&D is conducted in the future.

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Home comforts: Novartis is bringing 10 new clinical trials to the patient • Source: Shutterstock

Novartis AG is looking to put virtual clinical trials firmly at the heart of its strategy of digitizing the R&D engine having expanded its alliance with Science 37 to launch up to 10 new studies over the next three years that could be carried out at the patient's home rather than a large hospital.

"We are on an ambitious journey to completely change the clinical development paradigm," Novartis' head of digital development Jake LaPorte told Scrip in an interview, noting that "the current trajectory...

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